You've refused to get hold of the game legitimately but instead insist that we should spend time troubleshooting problems with the files you currently have even though you admit that you've already suffered a HD crash and the files might therefore be corrupt. The fact that the retail launcher also appears to crash only bears me out on that fact.

Sorry but no. I'm certainly not wasting my time doing that. Your downloaded files are almost certainly corrupt and even if they weren't they are hugely out of date and are going to cause us lots of problems trying to figure out what is going on.

Okay, i got FS2 disks (borrowed, they were hard to get....and the torrents had 20 seeders 50 some leechers!) and installed it. Now i can't get a FS2 Open build to load with a FS2 open launcher. Just the usual 'the launcher has experienced an incovnience and needs to close'.